Heart Health Blog

215 articles on preventive cardiology, lifestyle medicine, and evidence-based heart health.

Historical Engagements

Scrubs, Smoke, and Sliding into History with Pete Rose

I had always been a big fan of Charlie Hustle, having collected his ‘63 Rookie baseball card and then in ‘65 receiving the same 3 Rose cards in a single Topps p...

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Historical Engagements

How Joy, Laughter & Connections Enhance Heart Health

In a recent issue of the American College of Cardiology Magazine, my colleagues, Rupinder Bahniwal, MD, Tiffany Brazile, MD and I, reviewed how joy, laughter an...

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Historical Engagements

Our One (and only) Final Four Season

For Rutgers basketball fans, the 2024-2025 season was a calamitous disappointment, to say the least. After all, we had two of the most talented freshmen players...

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Historical Engagements

Livin’ la Vida Loca at La Marqueta

While most of my junior HS classmates were spending their free time playing sports or socializing with family and friends, we ware commuting to Spanish Harlem a...

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The Yankees Game I will Never Forget

On a cool and crisp day in April 1967, a family friend treated us to our first Yankeesgame at the original stadium that Ruth built. Still remembering that day a...

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We Lived in the “Original” Trump Tower(s)

In the early 1960s, our family moved from Queens to a sprawling apartment complex in Brooklyn known as Beach Haven (pictured above), owned by none other than Fr...

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Targeting Triglyceride Lowering in 2024

This week’s publication of RESPECT-EPA , adds more data to the 2 prior clinical trials JELIS and REDUCE-IT that found purified eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) to red...

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<strong>Eskimos, Fish Oils and EPA Deniers</strong>

Eskimos: More than half a century ago, Danish researchers Bang and Dyerberg made the astute discovery that Eskimos residing in the Danish territory of Greenland...

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